The university allows URLs as a “person name”, so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i’m getting bombarded by “legit” emails with a spam url as in “hi SPAM_URL”
If you’re getting flooded with emails from legitimate sites asking for email address confirmation or password resets, you may be getting hit with a “registration bomb.”
If you have something compromised, they’ll do this to try and hide the email you should actually be worried about in a flood of email that isn’t stopped by the spam filters because they’re from legitimate sources.
I recently woke up to thousands of emails about newsletter registrations, password reset requests, free trial notices, etc. Amongst the deluge of unwanted email was a notification about a new user being added to my PayPal account. If I hadn’t read through the emails I would have lost a lot of money.
I think this is a tactic scammers use to make you miss some other important email like online purchases. I’d comb through those emails carefully if I were you.
Now i’m getting tons of “Dear SPAM_URL, thanks for confirming your attendance at the conference”…
Might be worth letting the uni know. Surely they’ll want to fix the site!
They also listed themselves as a parent, so I guess you’d better say hi to your new daddy @Moonrise2473@feddit.it or should I call you by your legal name GET BITCOIN URGENTLY BITLY/FHQWHGADS
I said come, on, fhqwgads, I said come on fhqwgads! Everybody to the limit everybody to the limit everybody come on fhqwgads
Little Bobby Tables at it again
Hold on, English is dumb as fuck, is “an university” correct?
I would guess this person pronounces it like “ooniversity” in which case it’s correct, it depends on if there’s a vowel or consonant sound, not what letter it is. But I never heard it pronounced that way, for me it’s always been “youniversity” and in that case it’s incorrect.
OP is Italian. The u in the Italian word for university, universitá, is said with a vowel ‘ooh’ sound instead of a consonant ‘you’ sound. I’d wager they remember their English ‘a vs an’ rule phonetically and, with the words being so similar between languages, mixed the pronunciation up. I’m a native English speaker and that’s 100% how I fuck up my Italian.
In Latin langs, y sounds like i (e sound), so that’s probably where the confusion comes from.
No although it should be, an is used in place of proceeding a vowel
The correct usage is “a university” because the pronunciation of “university” begins with a consonant sound.
an is used in place of proceeding a vowel
Proceeding a vowel sound. The actual spelling is irrelevant.
He was an honest man, an hourly worker, and an heir to the throne. He rode a unicorn to a university, and oddly he was a eunuch.
Thank you I did not know this but this makes perfect sense based on my intuition
Perfectly explains why so many officials say “today is an historic event”
Not. Lol fuck these rules.
“an historic” only works in some accents. British, for example, pronounces it as “istoric”.
Edit: un-mis-spelling
Weird… I pronounce it historic. Tomato tomato I guess.
Lol. I guess my auto correct fixed it. Oops. I’ll edit
It’s a university. Don’t ask me why.
Because an precedes a word that starts with a vowel sound, not just because they start with a vowel letter
It’s debatable, technically it does start with a vowel so “an” should be used, but since it starts with a Y consonant sound, using “a” sounds a lot better and may also be considered correct/better.
Not really debatable, that’s the actual rule. An before words that start with a vowel sound.
‘An’ is used before any vowel. An opposite, an electrician, an icehouse, an apple.
Yes, but no. Your rule is correct, but the application of it isn’t. “An” is used for vowel sounds.
University (you-knee-ver-city), UFO (you-eff-ooh) use “a”, while honorable (on-oohr-a-bul) uses “an”.
Confusing language for sure.
Sanitize thine inputs ye old form builders…
Ah yes, little Bobby tables, we call him
It’s annoying. Putup a filter moving mail to spam if “hi https” is found in body.
also contact admins. This is some bad input validation :)
I think you should blurr your phone too
luckily it’s a random number that the spambot inserted in the form
I’m totally signing him up for the all my favorite shelters… they send cat and dog photos to your phone.
That would be extremely dangerous for someone with an overactive sense of empathy and limited impulse control.
